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From: wagner@uw-june (Dave Wagner)
Newsgroups: net.taxes,net.politics
Subject: Re: Con$cience and Military Tax Campaign
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Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 15:40:33 EST
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> The Con$cience and Military Tax Campaign is an organization which provides
> counseling and other services to conscientious objectors to military taxes.
> 
> Please note that conscientious tax objectors are not tax dodgers; they don't
> object to paying taxes, only taxes which in turn pay for war.
> 
> Some of the projects of the CMTC are:
> 
>  -- the Peace Tax Fund Bill, legislation which would give conscientious tax
>     objectors the right to specify that none of their taxes would be used
>     for military purposes.
> 

Unfortunately, although this idea may sound very appealing, if you truly
believe that you have the right to do this then you must also allow that
any individual may specify ANY government expense that he does NOT wish
to fund.  In other words, the pro-lifers could stop funding abortions for
poor women, the rich could stop funding welfare, and members of white-supremacy
groups could stop funding equal-opportunity programs.  Is this the kind of
society you want to live in?

I'm not in favor of the present rate of military expenditures, but the proper
place to attack it is at its source, i.e. the legislature should not approve
the budget in the first place.

			Dave Wagner
			University of Washington Comp Sci Department
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